[NIFL-WOMENLIT:2370] Re: questions

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I agree with Gail that students/learners should be the ones to determine how 
they prefer to be named. I was always uncomfortable with the term 'learner' 
because it felt imposed by practitioners. Sometimes we get carried away with 
our well-meaning PC labels. 
When I worked at a community-based agency in Providence, we did ask. The 
students wanted to be called 'students'...they said we don't say 'college 
learner' or 'high school learner', why would we say 'adult education 
learner". 

Judy Titzel
Providence, RI



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